While I highly disagree on piracy being an actual problem for the PC gaming industry, I am willing to see your point. You might be a little to young to remember, but we have always made copies of games, like forever. Nobody was buying games for the C64 or the Amiga for example, we always copied and shared them among our friends, and we never heared the companies complain and hunt the game shares down like criminals. Please do not get me wrong here, I’m not saying software piracy is just, but I suspect quite some companies to take that piracy “issue” as an excuse for bad marketing and in fact for not being able to cope with the market economy itself.

What I was trying to point out is that you don’t seem to understand the reasons for that german organisation to sue Valve, and that might be because you don’t know what’s going on in germany. We even have a political party that came out of the freedom for internet, information and data privacy movement. Perhaps, our society takes things like that reselling-issues a bit more seriously than other countries, I can’t evaluate that. I do not blame you for not understanding all that either, I certainly doesn’t understand your countries laws and processes. But you might want to consider doing some research before you write about other countries policies, that’s all.

Greetings from europe
R. Nunes

Hello,

The point I was trying to make is that the PC platform is already facing a piracy issue, and Valve–with Steam–are in a way trying to change that and have turned the ship around somewhat. PC digital games are already so cheap, and when you demand reselling rights for that, it’s going to be really difficult for developers to support PC gaming.

Suing Valve is not the right way to go about it. I may have been a bit harsh about the whole thing. I wasn’t criticizing the writing but rather the move and the justification behind it.

P.S.: Gibberish… well, since it’s a safe bet that my english is way better than your german, I would like to give you a word of advise here: Check your own writing from time to time, you may find more than enough gibberish at your own doorstep.